Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-26

the Newfoundland fshing smacks. Thii
is nothing against the man who has the
big store, for every. man has as large {
store and as great business as he car
manage. To feed right and do right undel
all this pressure requires martyr grace, re
quires divine support, requires celestial re
Enforcement. YET there are tens of thous
ands of such men getting splendidly
through. There are Others going up anC
themselves going down, but they keep thci
patience, and theii courage, ana their Chris
tiau consistency, and after a while theil
turn OF success wal come. The owners o
the big business viii die and their boy:
will get possession of the business, anG
with a cigar in their mouth, and full to tn,
chin with the best liquor, and behind &
pair of spanking bays, they will pass every
thing on the turnpike road to temporal
and eternal perditon. Then the busines.
will break up, and the smaller dealers will
have fair opportunity. Or the spirit o.
cOntentment and right feeling will TAKE
possession of tha arge firm, as recently in
the case Of the great house of A. A. Low &
Co., and the firm will say: "We have
enough money for all our needs, and the
needs Of our children; now let us dissolve
business and
MAKE WAY FOR OTHEk MEN
in the same line" Instead of being
startled at a solitary instance of magma
nimity, as in the case just mentioned, il
will become a common thing. / know o.
scores of great business houses that have
had their opportunity of vast ace mula.
tion, and who ought to quit. per
haps for all the days OF this generaS the
of small houses to keep alft an'
der the over-shadowing pressure of great
houses will continue, therefore, taking
things as they are. you will be wise to pre-
serve your equilibrium, and your honesty,
and your faith, and throw over all the
counters, and shelves, and rice casks, the
line Of divine right. And the
Lord said unto ME, Amos, what sest thou?
and said, A plumb line.
In the same way We need to measure our
theologies. All sorts of religions are put
ting forth their pretenSions Some have a
spiritualistic religion, and their chief
work is with ghosts, and Others religion
of political economy, proposing to put an
end to human misery by new style OF
taxation; and there is q humanitarian re.
ligion that looks after the body of men
and lets the soul look after itself; and
there is legislative religion that proposes
to rectify all wrongs by enactment Of bet
ter laws; and there is an aesthetic religion
that by rules Of exquisite taste would lift
the heart ont of its deformities; and relig-
ions of all sorts, religions by the peck, re-
ligions by the square foot, and religions by
the tOn-all of them devices Of the devil
that would take the heart away from the
only religion that will ever effect anything
for the human race, and that is the straight
up-and-dOwn religion written in the book,
which begins with Genesis and ends with
the religion of the skies, the
old religion, the God given religion, the
everlasting religion, which says: Love
God above all and your neighbOl rs your,
self" All religions but the one begin at
the wrong end and i'll the wrong place.
The Bible religion demands that we first
get right with God.
1T BEGINS AT THE TOP
and measures down, while the other reli.
nre up. They stand at the foot of the wall,
up to their knees in the mud of human
theory and speculation, and have plum.
met and string tied fast TO it. And they
throw the plummet this way, and break a
head there, and throw the plummet an.
other way, and break head there, and
then they throw it up, and then they throw
it up and it comes down upon their own
pate. Fools! Why will you stand at the
foot of the wall measuring up when you
ought to stand at the top measuring down?
A few days ago / was in the country,
thirsty after long walk. Aud ! came in,
and my child was blowing soap bubbles,
and they rolled out of the cup, blue, and
gold, and green, and sparkling, and beau.
tiful, and Orbicular, and in so small q
space never saw more splendor concen'
trated. But she blew once too often, and all
the glory vanished into suds. Then turned
and took glass of plain water, and was
refreshed. And so far as soul thirst Is
put against all the glowing,
soap-bubbles of worldly reform
and human speculation, one draught from
the fountain from under the throne of God,
clear as crystal. Glory be to God for the
religion that drops from above, not coming
up from beneath "Aud the Lord said
unto me, Amos, what seest thou? and
said, A plumb line.
want you to notice this fact, that
when man gives up the straight up and
down religion in the Bible tor any new
tangled religion, it is generally to suit his
sins. You first hear Of his change OF re
livion, and then you hear of some swindle
he has practiced in Colorado mining stock
telling some one that if he will put in ter
thousand dollars he can take out hund
red thousand, or he has sacrificed hi:
chastity, or plunged into irremediable
worldliness. His sins are so broad he ha:
TO BROADEN HIS RELIGION,
and he becomes as broad as temptation, as
broad as the souls darkness, as broad a
hell. They want religion that will al
low them to keep their sins, and then al
death say to them "Well done, good and
faithful servant" and that tells them
All IL well IOI lncIc III HO hSh' " "ha'
a glorious heaven they hold before us
Come, let us go in and see it. There i:
Herod and all the babes he massacred
There is Charles Guiteau, and Jim Fiske
and Robespierre, the friend of the French
guillotine, and all the liars, thieves, house
burners, garroters, pick pockets and liber
tines of all the centuries. They have al
got crowns, and thrones, and harps, anC
sceptres, and when they chant they sing
Thanksgiving, and honor, and glory, ant
power to the Broad Religion that let us
all into heaven without repentance anC
faith in those disgraceful dogmas Of eccles
sstical old-fogyism."
NV text gives me a grand opportunity o
saving useful word to all young men VIII
are now forming habits for lifetime o
what use to q stOnemason or bricklaye
is a plumb line? Why not build the wal
by the unaided eye and hand? Becaus
they are insufficient, because if there he
DETECTION 10 the wall it cannot further ol
he corrected. Because by the law Of gravi
tation q wall must be straight in order +
be symmetrical and safe. A young mai
is in danger of getting defect in his wal
Of character that may never be corrected
One of the best friends l ever had died o
delirium tremens at sixty years Of age
though he had not since twenty-one year
of age-before which he had been dissi
pated-touched intoxicating liquor unit
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